Sujet
Dr Hugo Eckener, manager of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin, c1917-1933 (1933). Artist: Unknown
Légende
Dr Hugo Eckener, manager of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin, c1917-1933 (1933). Eckener (1868-1954) took over the running of the Zeppelin company after the airships' designer, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, died in 1917. He was a successful Zeppelin pilot, despite crashing Zeppelin LZ8 trying to launch in a strong wind on his first flight in 1911. In the 1920s and early 1930s Eckener made the Zeppelin into a symbol of German national pride and became a national hero himself, piloting the airships on successful flights to America, the Arctic and around the world. Firmly anti-Nazi in his politics and a vocal critic of the regime after they came to power in 1933, he was marginalised at the Zeppelin company. In 1928-1931 A photograph from Zeppelin-Weltfahrten, Vom ersten Luftschiff 1899 bis zu den Fahrten des LZ127 Graf Zepplin 1932, Dresden, 1933.
The Print Collector collection
Date
1933
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM19C55_399
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
50,3Mo (1,8Mo) / 29,5cm x 42,7cm / 3488 x 5040 (300dpi)